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Due to sustained and continuous growth as well as an order book stretching well past 2024 they are looking to add to their commercial team. The successful candidate can have a Residential, Main Contracting or Civil Engineering background.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Reporting to the Commercial Director the Estimator will be producing detailed cost plans for a mix of volume residential schemes
- Assist in developing best practices in refining the estimating function for continuous improvement.
- Record and update benchmarking analysis of Project Cost Plans
- Provide accurate quantity take-offs.
- Obtain quotes that match design and specification to agreed timescales.
- Produce cost plans in detailed formats to enable review by the project and development teams
- Develop each budget / cost plan through the key stages of pre-acquisition, acquisition, pre-planning, planning submission, stage 4 (pre-construction / contract) and stage 5 (construction). Maintain a consistent format in order that change can be tracked through the various stages.
- List design and supporting information/calculations used to produce cost plan(s) including all correspondence. Highlight all cost variances. Benchmark and compare each cost plan against the Cost model
- Produce alternative costings and investigate alternatives for design and specification as part of value engineering, be proactive advising the design team of alternatives during design stage.
- Review, interrogate and reach satisfactory agreement of Project cost plan with the development team
- Develop agreed cost plan into individual trade and preliminary packages budgets, including allocation and management of Contingency and Risk Allowances
- Produce labour only targets, labour plant and material allowances for trade packages that are identified as potential for carrying out in-house.
The ideal candidate would have experience working as an Estimator/Senior Estimator for a Residential Developer, Housebuilder, Main Contractor or Civil Engineering company.
Training/Progression opportunities:
- Opportunities to progress and develop within the Commercial team.
